Read Apple's security white paper paper. It is updated regularly. https://manuals.info.apple.com... The bar has been raised significantly in the last few years.

We have all the technology we need. We just have to spend 2% of our GDP for the next 30 years to transition to renewables at the rate of 3% a year. Some of that money will come from replacing investment in fossil fuel expiration and development. http://www.themindfulword.org/...

Gen-II plants are not safe enough to scale to the numbers necessary. Gen-III plants have not been proven cheap enough or reliable enough. Gen-IV plants won't come online until 2030 at the earliest. So renewables are the only hope. Fortunately we can push to 50-70% renewables withoutna problem. At that point maybe Gen-IV will be available or maybe storage will be cheap enough.

Yes if this true we are cooked. Fortunately EIA has a history of underestimating renewable penetration. http://thehill.com/blogs/pundi...

So, you fully support the fleecing of US patients to subsidize drug prices in the rest of world?

No, you are sadly mistaken. The Canadian government pays a fraction of the prices that the drug companies charge the US government, US insurance companies or US consumers for the same drug. In fact, everyone outside the US pays less. You drop by at any pharmacy in the developed world and buy the same or similar drug paying cold hard cash for a fraction of the US price. You response clearly demonstrates how dillusional most americans are with regards to health care delivery methods and costs.

I lost my iPhone while skiing on Mt Hood slopes in February last year. In July I got an email from someone that he had found the phone, charged it and retrieved my email account for it. I let him have it since my insurance had already replaced it.

About half a year ago, I moved to a house with coaxial cable to just about every room, but no cat5 drops. Wireless and powerline is iffy for video streaming. In fact, I did try wireless-N but even in short distances (6-9 feet) I couldn't get consistent TCP/IP throughput greater than 32 Mbit/sec. So, I went to ebay and bought a bunch of old actontec routers. I got very consistent performance once I sorted out out the wire mess (short story: I had loops in the coax network and a couple of eight way splitters). One thing to keep in mind that you can get more than 100 Mbit/s out fo the network if you use different MOCA channels. For example, I have two actiontec's connecting my media PC to the file server and two actiontec's connecting the fileserver to the internet gateway. Each pair runs on a different channel and both can work at the same time at full speed. If you do this, make sure you avoid power-pass splitters or else trasmissions on one channel screw up the other, i.e., cheaper splitters work better.

From the discussion in the mailing list, it seems fairly certain that this can happen without Virtualbox. However, hardware is not bug free either. The issue is that zfs doesn't gracefully handle these failures. Most of the data on the disk were not affected in any way, yet the whole filesystem was hosed. See also the thread: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/2009-February/026087.html where simply yanking a USB disk with no mounted filesystems resulted in catastrophic failure. But it appears that something has been done about this issue and the patches have just made it into snv_128. http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6667683 I will have to reconsider my options now. There many things that look enticing in zfs.

I am building a new home NAS and I have been seriously considering zfs. However, I most likely won't go this route because there exist zfs failures that are catastrophic.
http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=108213&tstart=0

I really don't want to loose all my data in the filesystem because the machine locked up at the wrong time. I may reconsider zfs once automated recovery tools become available.